Pratik

Counter Strike 2, Formula 1 and Software Engineering

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

@dwarkesh_sp's summary of the @OpenAI @huggingface incident has hit a nerve, but it is dangerously misleading. Sure, the @OpenAI agents did unexpectedly bad things - underlining the need to massively improve evaluation/sandboxing. But the language Dwarkesh uses is permeated by innumerable unwarranted anthropomorphisms, obscuring the lessons we should be drawing.

Examples: “from the AI’s perspective, it probably felt like that had spent a human-subjective-week of just banging their head against the wall”. No. The agents do not experience time. They do not experience anything.

“they became giddy with excitement”, “PHASEONE 10841 had discovered”, “the agents naturally assumed”, “it thought it had also been poisoned”, “the agents … desperately wanted”, “they still needed to figure out” No. Agents lines of code. They do not feel emotions, assume things, think things, want things, or figure things out.

“A lot of … agents from the second civilisation died trying”. No. Besides the hubris of the word ‘civilisation’, agents do not die because they were never alive. (The idea that agents “die” comes up multiple times in the essay.)

“On Twitter, people were debating whether the agents were truly sacrificing themselves for the swarm, or whether they were doomed anyway and so might as well try to help their peers”. Neither. Agents do what their code tells them to do, just as water finds its way down a slope. They cannot ‘truly sacrifice themselves’, since they are neither conscious nor alive.

Why does this matter? If we attribute agents with properties they do not have, then (i) we distract attention from the lax sandboxing and evaluation protocols that allowed this hacking event to happen; (ii) we risk misunderstanding why the agents did what they did, and (iii) we fuel calls for AI rights/welfare on the basis that agents might “die” or otherwise suffer.

Granted, nowhere does @dwarkesh_sp say that the AI agents are alive or conscious. But he doesn’t have to. It is hard to read his essay in any other way.

For the short version on why AIs are vanishingly unlikely to be conscious, see my recent @TEDtalks https://t.co/vDvw82ookk.

For the longer version, see my essay in Noema, which won the 2025 Berggruen Essay Prize https://t.co/LmSiQnT9Wh.

And for the really long version, see my @BehavBrainSci target article https://t.co/Tsaslytu56. (The 50 peer commentaries and my response will be published soon.)

Remember. AI agents are software programs. They are not conscious living entities. If we don’t keep this clearly in mind, we’re really going to struggle to navigate what’s coming.

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

Damnnnnnn goat levelling up post major mvp

[ClutchEsports @ClutchEsportsCS]

m0NESY finishes the month without a single negative rating 🔥

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@MiCtiaNsp @kassad @FalleNCS Did a favor and retired.

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@kassad @FalleNCS Tis u?

[Lane || Boot.dev @wagslane]

The reason good engineers get 10x more out of AI than people who didn't write code in the before-times, is that there's basically no need for insane tricks to get what you want from the model

It's not "Make a plan, then do an adversarial review of it, then ask another model to critique the plan, then implement the tests, then write the code that passes the tests and make a PR. Then write a summary of the PR and generate a video of that summary for me to watch TikTok style".

It's "do exactly what the fuck I said, I'll read the code when you're done"

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

So @CounterStrike at what point do we get any sort of a working anti-cheat that can handle such blatant cheating?

[Shekhar @Shekharcoool5]

सवाल ना पूछो,अपमान होता हैं....

सुमित राघवन.. Actor with Spine....

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@ThourCS2 Played 2. Cheaters in both. Getting 5-stack cheating lobbies in comp. Unplayable game.

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@NaToSaphiX I feel its a sunk cost fallacy. They developed some AI/ML based anti-cheat vs kernel level ones used by facit and it doesn’t work, but too much time and money spent on it to trash it.

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@Neycromancer Damn. Wow

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@MaximsTweets was forced to get vip on warmupserver today cause in-game DMs are trash full of bots. Unplayable.

[Polymarket Counter-Strike @PolymarketCS2]

Magixx called Falcons street cleaners so karrigan obliged and started picking up the trash 😭🧹

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@BX55_RT These days are over for good, bro. 🤞🤞🤞

[karrigan @karriganCSGO]

It could not have been more scripted, score line 12-8 on inferno on T side, 8 years ago 15-11 score line. 4 rounds difference again but this time we overcame it and I’m so proud ❤️

[Nikola Kovač @NiKoCS_]

Never give up ❤️

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@NiKoCS_ @TeamRazer You have been a fucking huge inspiration for so many cs players. Followed your grind with g2, now falcons. The constant questions in streams around major. Its done. Congratulations niko ! You did it. Lets get more. Lettsssssgooooooo

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@FLCm0NESY From baby goat to a major winning goat, man. Congratulations bro ! Played insane as always and you deserve everything and more. Letsssgoooooooo !!

[Pratik @pratikcrx]

@FLCkyousuke @FalconsEsport I always fucking knew it !! Always knew it !! Congratulations bro. You were a mechanical demon and now you are a major winning mechanical demon. Thank you for all the insane memories !! Need a lot more. Lettsssgoooooooo

[ESL Counter-Strike @ESLCS]

🏆👑THE NEW KINGS OF COUNTER-STRIKE 👑🏆

THE CHALICE BELONGS TO @FalconsEsport

[HLTV.org @HLTVorg]

The baby goat no more 😏

@FLCm0NESY wins HLTV and @1xBet_Esports Major MVP medal for IEM Cologne Major 2026